Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Shelby

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

Richard Stallman

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Richard Stallman

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

Richard Simmons

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

Richard Simmons

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Richard Nelson Bolles

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

Richard Nelson Bolles

The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Richard Attias

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

Richard Armitage

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Reed Hastings

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Raymond Carver

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Sylvester McCoy

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Sylvester McCoy

If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

Sydney Schanberg

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia Browne

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Sydney Pollack

I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

Sydney Pollack

Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

Suze Orman

I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's how many people are actively looking for a job.

Suze Orman

Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number.

Suze Orman

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Susan Sontag

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Susan Sontag

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

Taylor Kinney

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

Taylor Kinney

I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked (stole) a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

Taylor Hackford

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Scott Adams

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Scott Adams

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Scott Adams

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

Scott Adams

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Scott Adams

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Josiah Stamp

Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.